Yichun

i may be fortunate enough to have a family who can support basic materialistic comforts but being the ever unsatisfied human being, but sometimes i do despair at my state of "poverty" especially when compared to people around me. "compare" is the root of all evil. however, it is inevitable.

in a bid to save money, the toilet's shower head has not been changed since ten years ago. despite incessant complains from me that the connection pipe kept dropping and efforts by me to source for cheaper alternatives and printing out a brochure from my workplace which has a special discount for heater. the offer ends by this month anyway.

the tremendous delay taken to order the "Time" magazine for my reading pleasures and an attempt to rescue my already weak linguistic ability. lack of credit card and cheques pose a challenge to the payment process, not to mention i have to source for the cheapest package possible. "if you buy it, make sure you read it" (in chinese) kept ringing in my head. i'm not the disciplined type that would read. in actual fact i think i would have spent the reading time chatting on msn messenger and checking out facebook. god seems to play a fool on me. a month after i signed up for a one year subscription, i received a email regarding a promotion package that offers a 67% discount for a one-year subscription of time and fortune combo.

refusal to buy newspapers to read at home because the prices of newspapers are too steep.

although this may not be the perfect example, but i think it indirectly shows some possible reason for the a phenomenom mentioned in the papers of how more than half of this year's PSC scholars live in private housing. only families that have the financial capability and education would buy subscribe time magazine and newspapers to read at home. sure, libraries provide them for free, but certainly it would be more accessible and one would encouraged to read more if these are readily available at home. and definitely trained them to be more mature and eloquent; what people look for in scholars.

ok i'm certainly not in the right state of mind while typing this and as usual my train of thought is hay-wired and my ability to express myself in words is just abysmal.

sigh.

i have been going home on time for this week so far, which is a good sign. however, whenever i prepare to leave the office one part of me strangely is pulling me back to complete more work. i feel the obligation to do more but practically i'm not sure whether it is worth it. well at least i'm proud of my work and can confidently say that i have put in my best to do things that are assigned to me.

thanks to kee hong who sourced out the directive regarding nsf promotion, we found out that actually it is not comulsory for me to take ippt before i'm eligible for promotion to cpl after all. nevertheless, i'm still taking ippt tomorrow since i have alreeady signed up for it. i'm almost certain i would not pass; the last time i ever passed napfa was...never. sigh.

going off to practice piano now. taking examinations end of this year, wish me luck!

just feel like updated this sad ranting ground. the recent financial crisis made me feel glad that i have taken economics in JC. at least i understood what is written in the papers with all the economics jargon incorporated.

on the other hand, is there a difference between jogging alone or with someone. used to jog with angie during the weekends and i wouldn't feel tired albeit singing/dancing/laughing/shouting/joking; all activities which consumed energy on top of that dispensed for jogging. now i feel shagged after jogging a relatively shorter distance. how am i supposed to pass IPPT and get my CPL rank? maybe i'm destined to be a PTE, the only problem being that a PTE's pay is a delta decrease of that of a CPL's.

life's unpredictable. just got to know that an old friend of mine going to go for a huge operation this coming december that involves some risks. hope that she can tide over the ordeal :).

looking forward to a OT-free (hopefully) week ahead.

9 months of 2008 has passed... and I have achieved nothing worth remembering.

hello! public holiday today so i am free to update this almost-dead blog. been busy attending piano and driving lessons, giving tuition and only left with weekday nights which i spend doing... rubbish lol.

currently i'm groovin' to this song by keane call "spiralling". the beat is so infectious that when i played it on my MP3 this morning it got me jumping out of my bed to dance! haha.





nothing much exciting happened except work has been rather smooth sailing. hopefully i woudl be able to tide through the intimidating ranking boards.

oh i haven't write the UCAS personla statement yet! the power of procrastination! anyway, i'm still rather unsure about my future. sigh probably i would study something random (like chem eng and business double) and do something random in the future too (which i have no idea what). haha.

meeting up with some JC classmates later. been a long time since we last catch up.

haha aaron welcome to mindef!